Sparing the child: grief and the unspeakable in youth literature about Nazism and the Holocaust

Abstract

Sparing Child: An Introduction 1. Official Histories and Counter-Texts: Literature for Youth about Nazism 2. Hitler Youth Does Not Cry: Text and Subtext in Der Hitlerjunge Ouex 3. Melancholy Detachment: The Narrative Voice in Richter's Trilogy about Hitler Youths and Young Soldiers 4. Hitler Youths with Private Values: Barbara Gehrts' Don't Say A Word and Burger's Why Were You in Hitler Youth? 5. Doris Orgel's The Devil in Vienna: From Trope into History 6. Holocaust Narratives for Young Readers: The Construction of an Enabling Rhetoric 7. Ruth Minsky Sender's Memoirs and Construction of the Holocaust Lady 8. Acquired Knowledge about Holocaust in Fictional Narratives: Heroic Gestures and Unredeemable Ironies 9. Hidden Grief: Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili and Limitations of Holocaust Picture Book Conclusion: .and there remains story that can be told. Bibliography Index

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